Don't fire Jeff Sessions, aides urge Donald Trump

On Wednesday Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say whether Trump had confidence in Sessions for the second day in a row, according to a report by Axios.

President Donald Trump (L-R), joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, January 28, 2017. "If he didn't, they wouldn't be here".

The White House's ongoing silence on Wednesday on what should be a simple assurance about a sitting Cabinet secretary is all the more striking because it comes on the heels of reports that Sessions recently offered to resign amid tensions with Trump. His decision in March to recuse himself from the investigation between Trump's campaign and Russian Federation was not known to Trump until moments before it occurred. "The American people would not tolerate someone being part of the campaign investigating the campaign". The statement doesn't mention Sessions' undisclosed contacts with Russia's ambassador.

On Monday morning, Trump directly criticized the Department of Justice for its handling of his executive order barring travel to the United States from several majority-Muslim countries that was twice struck down nationwide by appeals courts.

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One unanswered question is why won't the Trump Administration give unwavering support to Sessions if Trump plans to keep him around?

This column raised the question in February of whether the Russian Federation story was becoming Mr. Trump's Watergate.

"In private, the president's exasperation has been even sharper" than his tweet storms, The Times' Maggie Haberman wrote, citing several White House sources.

The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.

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It's nearly as if Trump's anger at someone, even when he's willing to express it in public, isn't a permanent or irreversible situation.

Trump and Sessions share a similar world view on key issues, including crime and immigration.

The ousted Federal Bureau of Investigation director says President Donald Trump had repeatedly told him he was doing a great job. Trump has blamed Sessions' recusal for the investigation expanding under the special counsel's probe.

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